Shallow & Sleazy The actors were good, but the story line is based on a cliché script used by modern Hollywood. The Hollywood version has a young woman just about to be married to a normal guy after a normal courtship of a couple of years or to her childhood sweetheart. Then she meets a stranger who's a wild and crazy guy (e.g., he shoplifts, engages in petty theft, trespasses, engages in behavior dangerous to himself, her and anyone nearby, e.g., long lingering kisses while he's driving at 85mph) and they fall madly in love in a day or two and she breaks off her engagement, but the story does not continue for more than a day or so. The story is marinated in shallowness. This Korean version is even shallower and adds sleaze to the recipe. Admittedly, the young woman here is in a 10 year relationship that both she and her boyfriend feel is going nowhere, so one does feel it quite right for her to leave the relationship. However, the "hero" in this "romantic", "love" story is a playboy who lives a series of one-night-stand type conquests with innumerable women. He starts his "relationship" with the movies heroine by quickly asking her if she will sleep with him that night which she (correctly) characterizes as sexual harassment. They are "forced" to stay together by a wild contrivance and the next day she characterizes him as very sleazy. The male character embodies all that women used to hate about men and still do - Hollywood movies notwithstanding. However, since he behaves himself at a funeral and is nice to a child for 15 seconds, she decides he's a "nice person" and sleeps with him and they both "fall in love". The movie is the personification of shallowness and sleaze. Any woman who finds this romantic is either very shallow or a poor judge of character and is likely to lead an unhappy life.

Unlike the usual chaste K drama series this movie has people talking about sex and having one night stands. Movies always can be more realistic than dramas. The story is alright - and things come together quite well. A playboy propositions a woman he meets on the train to Busan. It's quite fun to see how they do fall for each other properly. Moon Chae Won is a good actress I like to watch and Yoo is suited to the playboy.

It's okay - not the greatest but at least it's a grown up story.

Nothing too heavy here. The premise you've seen before. But wonderfully told and acted. Chae-won Moon in the female lead was especially good not just with lines but physically how she acted. Something not often seen in Hollywood. Some sections of the movie are very funny. Some are touching. A few serious. It never got too slow or deep. The only thing that keeps it from getting that 10th star from me is one character that was there for laughs on his own but I did not find funny at all. Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed Mood of the Day.